In 2010, households with children reported food insecurity at a
significantly higher rate than those without children, 20.2 percent
compared to 11.7 percent.

In 2010, households that had higher rates of food insecurity than
the national average included households with children (20.2 percent),
especially households with children headed by single women (35.1
percent) or single men (25.4 percent), Black non-Hispanic households
(25.1 percent) and Hispanic households (26.2 percent).

In 2009, 8.0 percent of seniors living alone (925,000 households)
were food insecure.

Food insecurity exists in every county in America, ranging from
a low of 5 percent in Steele County, ND to a high of 38 percent in
Wilcox County, AL.[3]

Nine states exhibited statistically significant higher household
food insecurity rates than the U.S. national average 2008-2010:

In 2010, 4.8 percent of all U.S. households (5.6 million households) accessed
emergency food from a food pantry one or more times.

In 2010, 59.2 percent of food-insecure households participated in at least
one of the three major Federal food assistance programs – Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (formerly Food Stamp Program), The National School Lunch
Program, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants,
and Children.

Feeding America provides emergency food assistance to an estimated 37 million
low-income people annually, a 46 percent increase from 25 million since Hunger
in America 2010.

Among members of Feeding America, 74 percent of pantries, 65 percent of
kitchens, and 54 percent of shelters reported that there had been an increase
since 2006 in the number of clients who come to their emergency food program
sites.